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National Merit Scholarship

noun

  1. one of some 7,500 college scholarships awarded annually since 1955 by the nonprofit, grant-supported National Merit Scholarship Corporation, to high school students National Merit Scholars on the basis of scholastic record, personal character, and score on a test administered nationally.


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Once she graduates in May, the National Merit Scholarship finalist plans to leave Nebraska for college in Minnesota, which enacted protections for gender-affirming care earlier this year.

Once she graduates in May, the National Merit Scholarship finalist plans to leave Nebraska for college in Minnesota, which enacted protections for gender-affirming care earlier this year.

One concerned the geographic rich-poor financial gap, and the other demonstrated a parallel geographic gap among the National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalist students.

Thirty-eight students at Interlake High School, a public school in Bellevue, are National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists, making Interlake the school with the highest number of semifinalists in Washington state.

Reid also announced a new division-wide process for high schools to ensure students are notified of all National Merit Scholarship honors in the future.

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